Klamath Peril Deepens: Send those Morons at FERC a Message
By Tom Chandler on Nov 16, 2006 in Environment, Underground's Best
I got an e-mail alert from CalTrout, and while I’d rather do anything instead of getting all pissed off while sitting at my desk, I couldn’t avoid it in this case.
The key quote:
Despite what experts consider an ironclad case for the removal of the dams, FERC issued a draft environmental impact statement that recommends only modest changes to current dam operations. Ignoring the demands of the tribes and conservation groups for dam removal as well as agencies’ mandate for fish screens and ladders, FERC has proposed that PacifiCorp drive fish around the dams.
Heartwarming. Your tax-supported Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) - ever vigilant in protecting rolling-in-dough energy producers from profit-sapping environmental inconveniences like nearly extinct salmon - has ignored an enormous body of evidence suggesting that trucking salmon around the four dams on the Klamath simply won’t work.
Given the perilous state of the Klamath’s salmon population (fewer than 30,000 fish returned for the third year in a row), this decision makes me want to buy a deer rifle and fix the problem more directly.
But that’s the kind of talk that brings the feebs swooping down on you, and lord knows I don’t need that.
Got Foam? The Klamath last summer. Lovely, eh?
Instead, I’m doing the polite thing and sending a polite e-mail to FERC Secretary Magalie Salas explaining (politely) that FERC would do a better job of protecting the public if the agency staff had been fed to weasels.
You, however, should probably follow CalTrout’s instructions and send something reasonable. Here’s what I’m asking:
- Go to this web address: http://ga3.org/campaign/klamath/wdnebx6295×5m5t?
- Fill in your name and e-mail address
- Click a button
That’s it! It takes seconds, and with any luck, we can get FERC to pull its collective head out of its ass and order PacifiCorp to pull its collective dams out of the Klamath’s ass.
This river has suffered so much at the hands of these dams, which generate huge water quality issues in addition to the loss of spawning habitat.
It’s time for them to go politely straight to hell.
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greg hall | Nov 16, 2006 | Reply
Trucking anadromous fish around dams doesn’t work anywhere it has been tried.
Tom Chandler | Nov 16, 2006 | Reply
It’s a hummer. It’s a “non-recovery” Recovery Plan brought to you by the same administration who said the law only required them to have a plan for saving the salmon on the Snake - not a plan that had any hope of actually working.
What a zany bunch…
Mark Latham | Nov 16, 2006 | Reply
Tom,
I saw a new bumper sticker today. “Hummers are for dicks”.
winehiker | Nov 20, 2006 | Reply
Yo Tom, I’ve duly sent Ms. Magalie the message.
Yo Mark, I would only amend that bumper sticker by pointing out the contrasting and inversely proportional aspects between its two nouns.
Damn all dams!
Tom Chandler | Nov 20, 2006 | Reply
Thanks! I hope the rest of you have sent your message to FERC.
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